Harvey's Elementary Grammar and Composition · Lesson 44 · Part 1: Part I: The elementary course
45. Compound elements
Goal: Your child can write and find compound subjects, predicates, objects and modifiers.
You'll need
- The book, open to this lesson
- Paper and a pencil (or a slate)
What's in the book
Lesson 44 shows compound subjects and predicates with "James and Samuel are kind, honest, and faithful," defines a compound element, gives directions for writing them, and asks for sentences with models.
The lesson, step by step
Review
Ask: What does a conjunction do? Name four.
Two subjects, three predicates
Read the book's example:
James and Samuel are kind, honest, and faithful.
Ask: Who are kind? What are they? Point out that the subject has two parts and the predicate has three.
The definition
Read:
A Compound Element consists of two or more similar parts of the same proposition connected by conjunctions.
The book says any element can be compound, and gives directions for commas when there are more than two parts.
Write compound elements
Write sentences following the book's models:
Ellen and Lucy are my sisters.
Tray is a large, black, and cross dog.
The book asks for five sentences each with a compound subject, predicate, adjective element and adverbial element. Do two of each today.
Analyze
The book analyzes sentences like "Mrs. Edson buys and sells butter and eggs." Ask your child to name the compound predicate and the compound object.
Check together
Check commas in each sentence with three or more parts.
Use it today
Make up a sentence about your family with a compound subject.
Answers to the book's problems
Sentences will vary. In the analysis: buys and sells is the compound predicate; butter and eggs is the compound object.
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